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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  as someone who has removed 40 dry pour fence posts, fuck dry pour. it’s fucking lazy and you’re fucking the dude that has to pull the plugs later.

  properly mix your concrete, it’s not hard with a machine.

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  • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As someone who’s done the same, eh, you have the machine anyways, and maybe you live in a drier place? Because they more or less come out in a single chunk, or if not, soft enough that the auger won’t shirk at it.

    We have pretty clay forward soil, so you can even just back fill and tamp it with the dirt you took out. Frost fucks with everything anyways.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      out of the 40 posts I pulled 10 of them came out 100%.

      the rest had to be dug out. each post had one thing in common. failure to bond. they all broke off just after the first 2 feet below grade. when I dug the bottoms out, it was all powder. those posts had been sitting there for 20 years, so there’s literally no other reason why the bottoms failed to cure other than they dry poured.

      mixing and pouring would have saved me more time than the last guy saved by doing it wrong the first time.

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      • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Time isn’t the only factor, water may not be available, if it’s a colder place, you need to keep it heated all day while you work. Dry bonded concrete works, if you’re replacing all the posts, it doesn’t sound like it’s only because a few failed, because you would just replace those ones.

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  • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not going to pay for the machine from my own money for some shit I do for work for a company. Next guy is just going to have to deal with it lok

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For us it’s water access, and not every farmers fence needs concrete either.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      fuck your cheap ass company for not doing it right.

      I get not paying for it out of your own pocket though.

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      • Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Those offering contracts cheap out on the contracts and specs, the people doing the thing cheap out on the work ¯⁠\⁠⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠⁠/⁠¯

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